Communications Lead 
Location: US, NY, New York City
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Not Applicable
Industry: Management Consulting
Function: Other

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Undercurrent is the strategy partner for the 21st century. As companies look toward the future, they are being held back by legacy ways of working born in the first industrial revolution. We think that there’s a better way.Since 2007, Undercurrent has been pursuing our mission to help every influential company and organization on the planet become a responsive organization, able to do more and change faster in the face of overwhelming complexity. We believe that when whole industries begin to compete in this new way, we will be one step closer to a world that gets better, for everyone, every day.We’re looking for someone who believes in our purpose, and wants to cultivate and expand our sphere of influence.At your disposal:You will be surrounded and supported by some of the sharpest and most curious people you’ve ever met. Our team comes from a wide range of backgrounds while sharing a common worldview – the belief that technology is fundamentally changing the world around us at an ever increasing pace. Even more than decades of proven expertise, we value insight about how the future is going to be different than the present, gained through intuition, intelligence, and creativity.You will shape and champion an idea at the center of our changing world. Every organization of scale - in ambition, size, or both - is currently trying to discover a new way of working that is better suited for today’s world. At Undercurrent, we call this way of working ‘responsive’. While the label and the definition are still evolving, we are seeing more and more evidence every day that this shift will play a defining role in our future.You will step into a clear role, built to adapt. Over the past year, we’ve been actively prototyping your role. On a regular basis, our team has been editing and refining the role and its work. Most importantly, though, when you get here, you’ll have the opportunity and expectation to take the reigns and continue to iterate and improve your job every day.Your main objectives will be to:Help make us a household name in consulting. Create and maintain a stunning and readily accessible library of content about Undercurrent’s work. This includes packaging case studies for our past and present projects, managing the production of videos that document our process, writing monthly blog posts that feature our most recent client success stories, and lining up articles about our work in major publications.Make the idea of the ‘Responsive Organization’ a mainstream concept among digital and business leaders.  Our purpose is to develop a Responsive OS in every company in the world. It’s your job to communicate our concept and strategy to our current network, and help us grow our network to include the leaders of tomorrow. You’ll need to tap your journalist friends for an article here and there, create an editorial strategy to get our message across, and find ways to get Undercurrent’s capabilities broadcasted in front of Fortune 500 CEOs and well known digital leaders.Make Undercurrent’s senior leadership a go-to resource for exec-focused conferences and publications (print and digital). You’ll act as a speaking agent, working to land significant speaking opportunities for our senior leaders. You’ll also act as a speaking coach, helping those individuals prep for the sessions.  Speaking engagements will be balanced with frequent writing gigs forUndercurrent leaders with premier business publications.Advise our clients on how to tell the story of our work together. Help us turn the cultural tide in Fortune 500 companies so that new ways of working will take hold. Help us scope for video production, ensure we capture content throughout the process, and work with us to flex our storytelling muscles.Build the Undercurrent network by adding new talent and client prospects to the pool. Host events that draw in a specific audience, catered to the UC purpose. Create an online forum for our followers to continue the conversation with us and our followers. Send out the UC Weekly Dispatch newsletter, and continue growing the list of recipients.If you think our story is worth sharing,  and want to be the one to lead this effort, apply here.

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